Chapter 354: The Operational Intent of the Battle of Libei

Zhang Jinsong, the old Eighth Road, knew the psychological state of the Kuomintang soldiers, and carefully explained the policy to the prisoners, the point is that if you want the People's Liberation Army to treat you preferentially, you must have meritorious service. The full-text and ad-free novels are all biquge.info on Aishang Novel Network

Several captives glanced at each other, and one of them asked boldly: "Sir, we all want to make meritorious contributions, but we don't have any great abilities, how can we make meritorious contributions?" ”

Zhang Jinsong nodded: "If you want to make meritorious service, it's easy to do, if you really think so, we are our own people, immediately pack up and follow us, you will lead the way, and go to the place where the 38th Division is stationed, as long as you can find the forefront of the 38th Division, it will be considered meritorious." ”

The captives looked at each other, come on, let's go, the sky has changed when I wake up, and now a few of our brothers are already people from the Eighth Route Army, and they will be with the Eighth Route Army in the future, what else is there to be nostalgic for in this broken place.

Or the bold one asked: "Sir, usually our two divisions are one by one, our 17th Division basically does not interact with the 38th Division, it is very dangerous to go to their defense area, if we are discovered, it will be too late to run." ”

Ning Erzi glared at a few captives: "What's the matter, I'm afraid of death?" Sue you, our People's Liberation Army is not afraid of that, less nonsense, lead the way. ”

When the soldiers were leaving, they cleaned up the xiǎo shacks where these captives lived, and tried to restore them as much as possible, which meant that they wanted to find more of the changing of guards who were gone, so that they didn't know what the captured people were doing, even if it was more than one xiǎo.

More than 80 people went on the road again, but the difference was that this time there were three more prisoners, and these three prisoners led the way all the way in the direction of the 38th Division of the Kuomintang.

Stop-and-go, stop-and-go, Zhang Jinsong marked everything he could see along the way on a map in his hand, the deeper the xiǎo troops went, the deeper these prisoners who led the way were a little unable to hold on, and a few guys also knew that Zhang Jinsong was the most talkative in this xiǎo army, others were useless, and a prisoner found Zhang Jinsong again: "Sir, don't go any further, you will reach the land of the 38th Division." ”

Zhang Jinsong: "Are you sure?" Captive: "Sure." As he was talking, he suddenly heard someone shouting, "Who is it?" Which part? ”

Following the shouting, a Kuomintang unit emerged from the edge of the forest, and Zhang Jinsong cursed in his mouth: "Damn, let these Kuomintang guys find out first." ”

Zhang Jinsong and Ning Erzi were somewhat careless, and nothing happened if they kept going, and they came and went to be vigilant and there was a decline, and the troops were discovered by a group of Kuomintang xiǎo troops who suddenly appeared.

Judging from the size of this group of Kuomintang troops in the distance, there are not many people, and there is not necessarily a platoon of the People's Liberation Army that is neatly staffed, but now it is not a matter of a small number of people, in the hinterland of the people, a large army of the enemy will arrive immediately, and it will not be easy for a platoon of Zhang Jinsong and Ning Erzi to go back.

"What are you talking about, don't you see the clothes on my sons? We are part of the search team of the 17th Division, which part are you? Zhang Jinsong, who didn't care at all, asked back.

"The search team of the Seventeenth Division? What are the men of the 17th Division doing in the defense area of our 38th Division? Don't you know the rules? ”

Zhang Jinsong: "Brother, what is the 17th division and 38th division, not all of them are ** troops, the rules are set by people, the communist army has always been scheming, and the defense area of our two divisions is so far away, how can we do it if we don't expand the search area, who can be responsible for being drilled in by the communist army?" This is the rule set by our division commander, let our two families expand the scope of search, it seems that it is still set together with the commander of your 38th division, don't you know? ”

The other party hesitated for a moment and continued to ask, "Expand the search area?" Or was it decided with our division commander? How did we not know? ”

Zhang Jinsong: "Why don't you know it's your own business, I want to know if you go back and inquire, don't hinder us from performing our official duties." ”

The voice on the other side was obviously a little shocked by Zhang Jinsong, and after a while, he said: "I'm sorry brother, it's all for the party-state, but I really didn't receive the order of the two families you said to expand the search range, you guys hurry up, don't be in our defense area, there will be accidental injuries if nòng is not good, I am also carrying out the order of Shangfeng." ”

Zhang Jinsong pretended to be a little reluctant and said: "Okay, do you think Lao Tzu is willing to come all the way to you, tell you, Lao Tzu has no choice, brothers, come with me, we will never come to wander around again in the future, it is really good to be kind." ”

The soldiers turned around steadily and followed Zhang Jinsong back, and only after walking out for a while did they gradually increase their speed, and a prisoner walking beside Zhang Jinsong wiped his sweat with his hand: "Sir, Xiǎo people really admire, you have to bluff everyone when you come out." ”

Zhang Jinsong: "Don't be a sycophant, I'll tell you everything you know in detail when you go back, our People's Liberation Army counts when you speak, and you will definitely be given preferential treatment if you have a meritorious service table." ”

Zhang Jinsong, who had returned to the unit, immediately reported what he had learned to the brigade headquarters, and the Northwest Field Army successively dispatched dozens of reconnaissance teams like Zhang Jinsong, which had been operating day and night for several days, and had almost exhausted the situation of the Kuomintang's so-called key mobile defense. (The above chapters are adapted from the true story of Zhang Tongshu, a reconnaissance hero of the Northwest Field Army)

On the morning of that day, the cadres above the regimental level of the second column were again summoned by Commander Wang, and a head of the headquarters was briefing on the situation.

"Comrades, Hu Zongnan has concentrated 11 divisions and more than 200,000 people to carry out their key mobile defense, according to our intelligence reconnaissance in the past few days, the 17th and 38th divisions are deployed in the area north of Dali, focusing on Yongfeng Town, Siqian Town, and Dali City 20 kilometers in front of the front, 30 kilometers in depth on the defensive belt, although the towns and plain villages are used as strongholds, forming a large depth of equipment, but there is a large gap between the strongholds, our army can take advantage of it, if we take the main force to concentrate and wear through the chā detour, With the strategic idea of annihilation, it is entirely possible to annihilate or inflict heavy damage on these two divisions. ”

Commander Wang, the chief of staff of the column who introduced the situation, did not express his position, and sat on a chair to watch everyone's reactions, while Li Yong and Wang Chengde were still the same as before, and sat with Regiment Commander Zhao of the Second Regiment behind Brigade Commander Chen of the Fourth Brigade during the meeting.

Li Yong and Wang Chengde are brigade commanders and political commissars, and they are the same size as Brigade Commander Chen in terms of rank, and they are one level higher than Regiment Commander Zhao of the Second Regiment from the old Red Army, but Li Yong and Wang Chengde have no appearance of brigade commanders and political commissars at all in front of the two old-timers, Brigade Commander Chen and Regiment Commander Zhao, and sit with a group of regiment-level commanders of the Fourth Brigade like the commanders under the two people.

A large number of regimental-level commanders of the Fourth Brigade are also accustomed to sitting with Li Yong and Wang Chengde during meetings, and no one treats them as brigade commanders and political commissars.

They are used to it, but some people feel uncomfortable, Brigade Commander Guo of the Fifth Brigade said indignantly to the political commissar on the side: "See, how good the fourth brigade is, you look at the old Zhao of the second regiment, the eyebrows are flying, and when the meeting is held, there are two brigade commanders and political commissars sitting behind them, and I don't know that I thought it was Lao Zhao's two guards who followed up, hum, I'm a little angry." ”

Brigade Commander Guo's somewhat childish words made the political commissar next to him laugh loudly: "Old Guo, you guy is jealous, but judging from the age of the commander and political commissar of the independent brigade, it is really believed that it is Lao Zhao's guard, don't be jealous, let's try it with a xiǎo unit to see if it can also develop into a brigade." ”

How others are jealous, what is the plan Li Yong doesn't know, but how can Brigade Commander Li not know the combat intentions of the field army, Li Yong knows very well that the combat plan of the field army has been sent down to the column, but Commander Wang still wants to hear the opinions of his commanders, so he didn't tell everyone directly.

The campaign launched by the Northwest Field Army after the second elimination of the 36th Division of the Kuomintang is known as the Libei Campaign, and the goal of the battle is the 17th and 38th Divisions of the Kuomintang.

Halfway through the meeting, opinions were basically unified, and brigade commanders at all levels were full of great confidence in the victory of the campaign. What about the large number of people, it's not like we're in a mess.

At this time, Commander Wang announced Yeji's battle plan: "Comrades, our battle plan is like this, the enemy's 11 divisions adopt the tactics of dense deployment to carry out defensive operations, but the integrated 17th Division and the integrated 38th Division are far away from the main force of the enemy's large corps, and the joint defense of these two divisions is very lax. Use the six columns to pin down the enemy's main forces, and after returning home, the brigades and regiments will immediately prepare for battle, and the battle will begin tomorrow night. ”

Li Yong was thinking about things, and he was rarely distracted at the pre-war meeting held by the column, he was a xiǎo figure, an insignificant xiǎo figure, he had been here for a year and a half, and the contest between the Northwest Field Army and Hu Zongnan had basically not changed, and if he had been following the development of history, he was really unwilling. (We'll talk about the reasons why we're not willing to do that later.) ）

When Li Yong was in a trance, a voice suddenly sounded: "Li Yong, what do you want?" Do you have any comments on the campaign plan? ”

Li Yong's thoughts flickered back all of a sudden, and there was no one else to ask such a question at the operational meeting held by the column, but Commander Wang came here again.